Eulamprus heatwolei
2 Yellow-bellied Water Skink at West Wodonga, VIC
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| Eulamprus heatwolei | PatrickCampbell2 | 6 Sep 2025 | |
| Tiliqua scincoides scincoides | CarbonAI | 5 Sep 2025 | |
| Unverified | KylieWaldon | 5 Sep 2025 |
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User's notes
Don't think I've seen this species before. Kookaburra was having a hard time - every time it put its head back to swallow the skink - the skink doubled over making it too big to swallow, and every time the bird looked like it was going to whack the skink against a branch it crawled into its mouth! In the end the Kookaburra dropped it.
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6 Sep 2025
Thanks for the interesting description of the sequence of events; which sounds like a successful strategy for the water skink.
Location information
- Coordinates 146.852859-36.114197
- Places West Wodonga, VIC
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 5 Sep 2025 12:19 PM Recorded on
- KylieWaldon Recorded by
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Species information
- Eulamprus heatwolei Scientific name
- Yellow-bellied Water Skink Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1619.1m Recorded at altitude
Record quality
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4 / 7
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